The Marine Biological Association has been working with the Marine Science Coordination Committee to develop a freely accessible events calendar for national and international events relevant to marine scientists. The driver for this was the recognition that information on marine conferences, workshops and meetings emerges piecemeal and while some schedules collating these events exist, they are fragmented and appear across a number of different organisations.  An on-line marine events schedule will therefore capture this information in one place with the following key aims:

• To enable more effective deployment of staff and timings of communication activities so as to make the greatest impact on the target audiences.
• Raise awareness within the wider scientific community of what events are taking place.
• Encourage greater publicity of marine events by the media.
• Aid planning of events (i.e. avoiding timetable clashes)

The calendar can be found at http://marinescienceevents.co.uk/ where you can also sign up and your event for free.

To keep up to date on the latest events you can subscribe to the RSS feeds or follow the calendar on Twitter.